That moment was meditation! After a few moments your inner chatter started again. Your mind said, What a beautiful sunrise! The moment the words appeared, you were out of meditation! You can either think or meditate. You can never do both. Meditation is just being. It is experiencing the present moment without resistance. What is the right way to approach meditation? The first thing is, be sincere. Keep an open mind. Have the openness to experiment. Be enthusiastic. There is a beautiful term in the Zen tradition to describe the attitude – the beginner's mind. It means looking at every single thing in life as new, so everything in life excites you. The second thing is, be optimistic. Bliss is a perfectly realizable goal for you, even if you are completely unfamiliar with meditation.

Once a man approached the great enlightened master Ramana Maharishi and asked him, Bhagavan, am I qualified for spiritual life? Bhagavan answered him with a question, Are you alive? The man was startled. He said, Yes, of course! Bhagavan replied, That is enough. You already have the necessary qualification for spirituality! The very aim of human life is enlightenment. The possibility of becoming enlightened lies in the Kundalini shakti, an extraordinary potential energy which is hidden inside every human body. If it can be awakened, it will take you to a different plane of consciousness, a different plane of Existence. The possibility to become a different conscious being is present only in human beings. Animals don't have this potentiality to become enlightened, to become different conscious beings.

The third thing is, be playful! Meditation is a big adventure. To become serious about meditation is to miss the whole point. Celebrate meditation. Simply enjoy it! The fourth thing is, have patience. Don't start worrying about results the moment you start meditating. The possibility to become a different A small conscious being is story: present only in Three mon-human beings. keys once found a ripe, juicy mango. Like all monkeys, they fought over the mango for a while. Then somehow, they had a moment of clarity, a moment of intelligence. Instead of eating the mango right away, they decided to sow the mango. They knew that once the mango seed sprouted and grew into a tree, there would be more than enough mangoes for all three of them.

Each of them decided to take up one part of the task of caring for the mango plant. The first monkey said, I will water the plant every day! The second monkey said, I will keep the soil healthy and rich, add fertilizers and ensure that the plant grows well. The third monkey said, I will guard the plant carefully and protect it from harsh weather and other animals.